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What's at Stake in Rhode Island: RIPTA
By Jamie Rhodes, Rhode Island State Director We're less than a week from the election. Clean Water Staff across the country will be blogging about what it means nationally and locally. Check back for more. It’s time to take a look as some of our General Assembly candidates. Rhode Island’s universal support for the environment keeps it out of the ProJo and off the 11 o’clock news during campaign season. That doesn’t mean the voters should forget our November 6th choices will chart Rhode Island’s path for the next two years. Lately, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority has been a political
Sandy, Climate Change, and the Election
By Michael Kelly, Director of Online Communications We’re less than a week from the election. Clean Water Staff across the country will be blogging about what it means nationally and locally. Check back for more. Sandy hits New York Climate change did not “cause” Sandy. Except that it did. Except that the question, “did climate change cause Sandy?” doesn’t matter. Storms like Sandy are too complex to have one cause, though they certainly do have a (big) climate change connection. Grist explains it here. "Did climate change cause it?" is now asked after every natural disaster (which I suppose
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Food Waste out of the Trash
Legislation passed in 2021 to require large food waste generators to divert their waste away from landfill or trash incinerator if an organic recycling facility is nearby that can take their waste. Food waste is a persistent problem, with over 25% of the overall food supply at the retail and consumer level going uneaten and wasted. Disposing of our organic material in landfills and incinerators contributes to climate change. Whether landfilled or burned, the waste generates methane and carbon dioxide. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is 86 times more potent in causing the climate to
Water Affordability in California
Every Californian should have access to affordable safe drinking water. Yet our water system is at risk of failing Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities, right when we need it most to slow the spread of COVID-19.